Myanmar earthquake death toll passes 1,000
Newshour
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🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Amidst all the death and damage caused by the earthquake in Myanmar, the UN said they have had reports the military government is still launching air strikes on rebel-held areas.
More than 1,000 are now known to have died in Myanmar and thousands more injured after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday.
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(Photo: People look at the collapsed Maha Myat Muni Pagoda following an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar. Credit: STRINGER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London. |
| 0:08.1 | This is Owen Bennett-Jones and we're going straight to Myanmar. |
| 0:11.7 | And after the earthquake, the rescue and the all-too-familiar scenes of people trapped under heavy concrete with rescuers trying to reach them. |
| 0:21.7 | The military government says over a thousand people have died. |
| 0:24.9 | A number, it believes, is bound to rise. |
| 0:27.3 | And lots of governments are offering help. |
| 0:29.2 | The military have said they need it. |
| 0:31.1 | Here's the head of the military hunter, General Ming-ang-Hang. |
| 0:39.1 | As we're in the middle of a massive relief effort after this natural disaster, |
| 0:43.4 | I would like to request all people to help as much as you can. |
| 0:47.3 | I have declared a state of emergency in all the affected areas |
| 0:50.5 | and have opened all ways for foreign aid. |
| 0:53.6 | Well, the situation is worst in Mandalay. |
| 0:57.4 | And the situation that really remains unclear. |
| 0:59.7 | Sue Montailles is from the Aid Agency Plan International Myanmar, |
| 1:03.6 | and she was speaking to Reuters News Agency from the city of Yangon. |
| 1:08.1 | In Mandalay, it's so desperate. |
| 1:11.0 | Mondali, it's just 12 miles away from the epic center and the damaging of infrastructures. |
| 1:17.5 | The buildings, the roads cracking, airports tower was just falling in the bridge. |
| 1:24.0 | And especially the building damage was so severe and people are just you know they so shocked |
| 1:32.0 | people are just you know desperate devastated and I when I see the damage at the bridges and the |
| 1:41.0 | roads it was it was so huge I have never seen anything like that in my life before. |
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